Phoebe Robinson is an American stand-up comedian, New York Times bestselling author, and actress who rose to fame as the co-host of the hit podcast TV show 2 Dope Queens. She is also known for hosting the acclaimed podcast Sooo Many White Guys, which features exclusive interviews with women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ community. She gained huge recognition for her books You Can’t Touch My Hair: And I Still Have Something to Explain (2016) and Everything Is Trash (2018).
Wiki/Biography
Phoebe Robinson was born on Friday, September 28, 1984 (2020 age 36) in Bedford, Ohio, USA. She attended Gilmore College in Ohio. In 2002, she moved to New York City to take a screenwriting course at Pratt Institute in New York City. Although she was an active member of improvisation groups during college, stand-up comedy did not become her forte until 2008 when a friend encouraged her to take a stand-up comedy course at the Caroline Comedy School in New York City.
Phoebe Robinson and her brother as children
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 6″
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Black
address
In June 2018, Phoebe Robinson and her boyfriend purchased an apartment in Brooklyn, New York.
Family and Race
Phoebe Robinson was born into an African American family
Parents and siblings
Phoebe Robinson’s father, Philip Robinson, is a small business owner. Her mother, Octavia Robinson, is an accountant. Her brother, Phil Robinson (born Philip Martin Robinson Jr.), is an American politician and a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, serving in the Cuyahoga County 6th District.
Phoebe Robinson (Phoebe Robinson) with her mother as a child
Phoebe Robinson and her brothers
Relationships, husbands and children
Phoebe Robinson calls her boyfriend the “British Baekoff”.
Phoebe Robinson and her boyfriend
Profession
After completing her formal education, she began working as a receptionist at New Line Cinema in New York. Later, she was promoted to assistant to the head of “Picture House”, an independent company of New Line Cinema. Phoebe Robinson has worked as a writer for the TV series Portlandia (2011) and Girl Rules (2013). In 2012, she started writing the blog and podcast Blaria, while creating online content for Glamour. In 2015, she became a comedian and starred in comedy shows such as The Last King of Comedy and Broad City. In 2016, she served as a consultant for the third season of the American television sitcom Broad City. She has also written two books, You Can’t Touch My Hair: I Still Have Something to Explain (2016) and Everything Is Trash, But That’s OK (2018), which are collections of essays on race, gender and popular culture.
On July 12, 2016, her personal podcast, Sooo Many White Guys, premiered on the official website of WNYC Studios. In the podcast, Phoebe talks about the dominance of white men in the comedy industry and exclusively interviews women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ community.
There Are So Many White People (2016)
In 2019, Phoebe Robinson made her UK debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performing her one-person stand-up show Sorry, Harriet Tubman.
television
Phoebe Robinson made her television debut in 2014, playing the role of Shenae in the American television sitcom Broad City. In 2018, she began hosting the popular podcast TV show 2 Dope Queens with her partner Jessica Williams, which aired on HBO.
Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams in the TV series 2 Dope Queens (2018)
Later, in 2020, she participated in the reality show RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race as a contestant.
OTT/Network Series
In 2016, she made her digital debut with Netflix Presents: The Characters, a show that featured eight emerging comedians performing a 30-minute show each.
Netflix Presents: Characters (2016)
Later, in the same year, she hosted the talk show “Woke Bae”.
Movie
In 2017, Phoebe Robinson made her film debut in the movie In Case of Emergency, where she played Charlene. She later played Leah in the movie Ibiza (2018) and Ciarra in the movie What Men Want (2019).
Phoebe Robinson in the film Ibiza (2018)
In 2020, she starred in the American documentary “Becoming”, which tells the life of former US First Lady Michelle Obama.
Awards/Honors
- Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Humor for the book You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Need to Explain (2016)
- Nominated for the Audie Award for Humor (2017) for You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Need to Explain (2016)
- Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Humor for the book Everything is Rubbish, but That’s Okay (2018)
- Nominated for the Audie Humor Award (2019) for Everything is Rubbish, but That’s Okay (2018)
- Nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award (2019) for the TV series Portlandia (2011).
Favorite Things
- Comedians: Bill Burr, Wanda Sykes, Ellen DeGeneres, Patrice O’Neal
- Artists: Bono, Ricky Martin, Billy Joel
- TV series: Moesha (1996), Martin (1992), Sex and the City (1998)
Facts/Trivia
- Phoebe Robinson occasionally drinks.
- Phoebe Robinson idolizes American talk show host, television producer, actress, author and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey.
- She is also a philanthropist and has been working with her favorite American singer Bono on the “Poverty is Sexism” campaign, which is Bono’s social welfare activity to promote girls’ education.
- In 2020, she founded Tiny Reparations, a production company under Embassy Row. Tiny Reparations’ first project was a talk show titled “The Best Thing With Phoebe Robinson,” which premiered on Comedy Central in 2021.
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